The Mumsnet Christmas Appeal: let’s raise some money for the Meningitis Research Foundation in honour of CatThiefKeith

[JustineMumsnet]

Hello all,

A merry December 1 to you all: to kick off the Christmas season (sorry but there’s just no avoiding it any longer) we’re pleased to announce the launch of this year’s Mumsnet Christmas fundraiser.

As some of you will hopefully remember, last Christmas you all raised money for Women’s Aid and Refuge, and we at MNHQ doubled the donations.

This year we’ll be raising money for the Meningitis Research Foundation, in honour of CatThiefKeith, a huge character much beloved of her fellow MNers (and of MNHQ), who died suddenly earlier this year.

As with last year’s appeal, we’ll double donations up to £10,000.

We know this is an expensive time of year, but any donation at all will be greatly appreciated and WILL make a difference.

Please have a look at this page for more information about the Meningitis Research Foundation and what they do.

We’ll keep you updated with running totals and we’ll also host a guest post from MRF.

Please click here to donate if you can. We’re looking forward to helping MRF this Christmas and we’re especially happy we can do so in CTK’s honour.

Thanks for reading everyone - wishing you all a happy and peaceful Christmas.

Thanks
Justine

You are nice, cozie; at least I can say quite happily - that I have absolutely zero talent for it!

Well there is that.

No bad thing, though.

195 supporters.

Done. Great choice of charity.

done :) thank you mumsnet

Done, after reading the guest post. Definitely need to get us vaccinated.

Done!

And well done.

I miss CTK so. I feel diminished by her absence.

Donated and shared.

Meningitis is (to me) one of the scarier illnesses that can be so quickly fatal.

Best wishes to CTK family.

Done.

Done x

Well done.

The appeal ends tomorrow if I recall?

Done. Septicaemia affected someone close to me who thankfully survived but nearly didn’t

Done and bump

Gem mdbfl

Hello,

Thank you to everyone who gave money to our Christmas appeal - we've raised £3,374.27! I'll post here again to let you know that we've made our donation matching this.

Great!

Well done, everybody.

Hopefully, this appeal and the guest post will have effected some consciousness-raising as well.

Hello - we've just made our donation and the total amount of money raised for the Meningitis Research Foundation is £6,748.54! Thanks so much to everyone who donated and shared the appeal, we really appreciate your support.

Thanks, Bojana. A great cause and excellent support.